The question about deciding the shape of post-war Europe is unfair. The three leaders of UK, USA and USSR met in Yalta to discuss it, but the details were thrashed out (including France) in the Potsdamm Conference, which was also a possible answer. BTW my favourite trivia fact about the Potsdam Conference is that the UK Prime Minister at the start of the Conference was Churchill. The UK General Election was in the middle of the conference, so Churchill returned to London on the evening of the election expecting to return to Germany the next day. He didn't return. Clement Attlee won the election and flew out to Potsdamm instead of Churchill.
43/65, knew more than I thought. My Dad was born in 1918. Dad would tell people that he was born during WW1. My parents lived through WW2 in the Netherlands. They met during the liberation celebrations.
My dad, Coast Guard, born 1917. Served on the Virginia coast alternating loading heavy ammo on ships and patrol along the entrance of Chesapeake Bay and the James River looking for German U-boats. At the end he was in California preparing for Japanese mainland invasion and being as an extra in a movie.
60/65. 30/33 about WWI and 30/32 about WWII. Although Stalingrad siege was far bloodier than Leningrad blockade. The victims during the Leningrad blockade were mostly from the starvation.
61/65. I was completely unaware that it was Poland that had cracked the Enigma code long before the war had even started. I had always thought it had started with Turing.
Poland cracked the code in 1932, The Germans updated their enigma machines to the letter of approximately 3 billion codes which changed daily. Tougher nut to crack eh?
@@gwine9087 They cracked the code in 1932 already - when the war started they disclosed the info to the British who then worked on to accelerate the decoding under the Turing team.which wss crucial
I learned quite a few things from this quiz. I am not as knowledgeable about WW1 as I am about WW2, and that is were I gained information. Any questions that I missed came from the WW1 section of the quiz. Of the 65 questions, I missed 8. Great quiz, as always. Thank you, Ben. 👍
Great quiz Ben 62/65. I got 3 of the Western Front battles wrong. They all seem to merge together. I was pleasantly suprised as more modern history isn't my favourite period but including school, movies and novels set during those times I must have absorbed more than I thought.
I loved this quiz, Ben, and was pleasantly surprised to find out that I actually knew more than I thought. I also learned quite a few things. Thanks for sharing these well-researched questions! 🙏😍
I see "WW1 and WW2 quiz" And I am IN ... lol 58 out of 65 ... Incorrect ones 7 - 16 -18 - 25 - 29 - 54 - 60 BRAVO 👏. One of my favourite tests , Loved it Sir ! But VERY disappointed at getting 7 wrong 😢, Frustrating thing is ?? BEFORE EVERY question ! I kept saying "EASY" in my head .. lol YET 7 wrong .. I remember HATING history in my youth .. Then I watched Blackadder 4 and completely fell in love with it .. Some TRULY AMAZING heroes from British history . I hope you do more like this Sir .. 😁💖👍
The question about who was the leader of Italy during WWII is.... all three: Mussolini was Prime Minster, Badoglio was the Chief of the Italian General Staff and Vittorio Emanuele III was the King, so all three wielded command - and on 25/7/43 the King showed Mussolini that he was in charge by firing and arresting him
This. "on 25/7/43 the King showed Mussolini that he was in charge by firing and arresting him" ... and replacing him with Badoglio -- who was, therefore, Prime Minister for a significant chunk of the war. (Unlike Karl Dönitz, who ran Germany for only the last week or so of its involvement in WW2. Although each of those was in charge when his country capitulated, so there's that...)
Thank you Ben, I did better on the second part than I did on the first. My parents were born during the second part of the quiz and I do remember a bunch of that history from word of mouth.
I knew all of WW2 questions and around 60% of WW1. WW2 is one of the most interesting (and horrible) times in human history. It was a nice mix of easy and relatively hard questions.
Hi Ben. 62/65 today. A very good quiz. As mentioned to you on a previous quiz, I love history. So I'm a little annoyed at getting three wrong. But, hey ho, nobody's perfect. Not even me. 😁
It is a pity that it seems to be such a surprise though they did the initial pioneer work - Turing and his team later developed methods to decode them in almost real time as the Germans changed the code all the time so their work was vital.
It is usually well-known that the Poles broke it but Turings team made it possible to decode them in almost real time as the Germans changed the code frequently so Turing's work was crucial.
we in the uk get a lot about the europe conflict in school. the pacific theatre is neglected, even although it was absolutely vital and major. furthermore, many uk forces were in SE asia, and its neglected even so. i know about SE mainly as a result of my grandfather being in charge of a commando unit in burma.
Spoiler alert for Question 32 - so don't read further if you haven't reached that question, but it brought to mind something I read forty years ago when I was obsessed with learning what I could about the Great War. Georges Clemenceau, PM of France after WW1, famously remarked, after receiving Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points for Peace, "Le bon Dieu s'est contenté de dix!" ("The good Lord made do with Ten!").
For question 39, the correct answer, per several sources including Britannica, is either the Nonaggression Pact or the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It has been called several other names as well. To my mind, though commonly called the Molotov-Ribbontrop Pact, this is less correct as those were the names of the actors who negotiated it but technically it was not called that.
63/65 But there again I am an old fart brought up on WW1 & WW2 history + I have read loads of books on these subjects and the time period in question. I wonder how much younger people would have scored ? Not as well I think.
German here. 62/ 65... I'm not into the the Amercan battles of 1918, cause they are not interesstin'. I'm not sure, how exact the check is about deadly wounds in WWI and I disagree, about Yalta! Why? The Potsdam conference, put the final seal on the end. 2 of the 3 leaders from Yalta were not in service anymore. So, imo, this in Potsdam was the decision, about Europe. To devide Germany, was about to devide Europe...
3 wrong in each section. Never heard of that Zimmerman thing, so got both questions where that was a factor wrong. I was also sure that Stalingrad was the deadliest battle. I thought that the majority of victims of the siege of Leningrad died of starvation.
too easy,,only missed 4,,,,my father was a tank commander in Patton's 3rd army,,,he got me into war history on both sides ,,unofficially ww2 started when Japan attacked Manchuria and then china
Well I guess 60/65 ain't too bad - getting only one wrong in the WWII part; but really, these questions were simply a 'no-brainer' (at least for me, anyway) ... Nope, can't fool the 'war-expert'!
20: I dispute that. Famine and disease were the greatest cause of death. These are for the most part awfully simple questions, grade or high school level at best.
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59 of 65. The enigma code really shocked me... gonna have to look that up.
Britain cracked the enigma code. The Poles supplied the designs of the machine.
@@desthomas8970 The Poles cracked the code before WWII..
The question about deciding the shape of post-war Europe is unfair. The three leaders of UK, USA and USSR met in Yalta to discuss it, but the details were thrashed out (including France) in the Potsdamm Conference, which was also a possible answer.
BTW my favourite trivia fact about the Potsdam Conference is that the UK Prime Minister at the start of the Conference was Churchill. The UK General Election was in the middle of the conference, so Churchill returned to London on the evening of the election expecting to return to Germany the next day. He didn't return. Clement Attlee won the election and flew out to Potsdamm instead of Churchill.
As an army brat of a ww2 vet and a strong student of ww 1 and ww 2, I got all questions correct. That for me was a easy quiz
43/65, knew more than I thought. My Dad was born in 1918. Dad would tell people that he was born during WW1. My parents lived through WW2 in the Netherlands. They met during the liberation celebrations.
Mine was born in 1940, and always says "Who has kids in the middle of a world war?!" That always makes me laugh.
My dad, Coast Guard, born 1917. Served on the Virginia coast alternating loading heavy ammo on ships and patrol along the entrance of Chesapeake Bay and the James River looking for German U-boats. At the end he was in California preparing for Japanese mainland invasion and being as an extra in a movie.
60/65. 30/33 about WWI and 30/32 about WWII.
Although Stalingrad siege was far bloodier than Leningrad blockade. The victims during the Leningrad blockade were mostly from the starvation.
61/65. I was completely unaware that it was Poland that had cracked the Enigma code long before the war had even started. I had always thought it had started with Turing.
Poland captured an Enigma machine but I do not recall them actually cracking the code. Perhaps it is how one defines 'cracked'.
Poland cracked the code in 1932, The Germans updated their enigma machines to the letter of approximately 3 billion codes which changed daily. Tougher nut to crack eh?
They didn’t crack the code…they were the first to obtain an enigma machine though.
Same (63/65)
@@gwine9087 They cracked the code in 1932 already - when the war started they disclosed the info to the British who then worked on to accelerate the decoding under the Turing team.which wss crucial
I learned quite a few things from this quiz. I am not as knowledgeable about WW1 as I am about WW2, and that is were I gained information. Any questions that I missed came from the WW1 section of the quiz. Of the 65 questions, I missed 8. Great quiz, as always. Thank you, Ben. 👍
Great quiz Ben 62/65. I got 3 of the Western Front battles wrong. They all seem to merge together. I was pleasantly suprised as more modern history isn't my favourite period but including school, movies and novels set during those times I must have absorbed more than I thought.
Wow, that's a great score. Thanks for playing 😁
I loved this quiz, Ben, and was pleasantly surprised to find out that I actually knew more than I thought. I also learned quite a few things. Thanks for sharing these well-researched questions! 🙏😍
Fantastic! Thank you for the feedback 😁 Have a great weekend
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Thank you. You too, Ben. 😊
Missed 3. Keep em coming!
I see "WW1 and WW2 quiz" And I am IN ... lol
58 out of 65 ... Incorrect ones 7 - 16 -18 - 25 - 29 - 54 - 60
BRAVO 👏. One of my favourite tests , Loved it Sir ! But VERY disappointed at getting 7 wrong 😢, Frustrating thing is ?? BEFORE EVERY question ! I kept saying "EASY" in my head .. lol
YET 7 wrong ..
I remember HATING history in my youth .. Then I watched Blackadder 4 and completely fell in love with it .. Some TRULY AMAZING heroes from British history .
I hope you do more like this Sir .. 😁💖👍
Thanks for commenting. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I couldn't agree more about Blackadder, one of the greatest comedy series.
The question about who was the leader of Italy during WWII is.... all three: Mussolini was Prime Minster, Badoglio was the Chief of the Italian General Staff and Vittorio Emanuele III was the King, so all three wielded command - and on 25/7/43 the King showed Mussolini that he was in charge by firing and arresting him
This.
"on 25/7/43 the King showed Mussolini that he was in charge by firing and arresting him"
... and replacing him with Badoglio -- who was, therefore, Prime Minister for a significant chunk of the war. (Unlike Karl Dönitz, who ran Germany for only the last week or so of its involvement in WW2. Although each of those was in charge when his country capitulated, so there's that...)
Excellent quiz! 30/33 for WW1 and 31/32 for WW2, Potsdam tripped me up much to my annoyance!
Interesting quiz, I got the majority of WW2 right...not that I was there, lol. WW1 was fair at best, but as usual, good learnings.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching
Easy quiz.
Hello Ben, thanks a lot for all your great quizzes
Best wishes from Northern Germany, Fee
Glad you like them!
Thank you Ben, I did better on the second part than I did on the first. My parents were born during the second part of the quiz and I do remember a bunch of that history from word of mouth.
I knew all of WW2 questions and around 60% of WW1. WW2 is one of the most interesting (and horrible) times in human history.
It was a nice mix of easy and relatively hard questions.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for commenting 😄
61/65. I've studied WWI and WWII since before high school, that's over 50 years. Getting 4 wrong is embarrassing. I liked the quiz
Glad it was a suitable challenge for you. Thanks for playing 😁
This was a great quiz Ben. I'm a bit of a war buff, but I did get 7 wrong...4 for WW1 and 3 for WW2.
I missed 10 out of 65. Great quiz :)
Hi Ben. 62/65 today. A very good quiz. As mentioned to you on a previous quiz, I love history. So I'm a little annoyed at getting three wrong. But, hey ho, nobody's perfect. Not even me. 😁
63 I had no idea about the Enigma answer, a genuine surprise.
It is a pity that it seems to be such a surprise though they did the initial pioneer work - Turing and his team later developed methods to decode them in almost real time as the Germans changed the code all the time so their work was vital.
58/65 Great quiz! I need to brush up on my WWI history. Six of my misses were in that category.
8 wrong for the WW1 questions, 1 wrong for the WW2 questions....56/65. Thanks Ben.
Thanks for playing
Brilliant quiz again, Ben - I scored 62/65 and learned some new stuff 🙂Warmest thanks!
Excellent!
I thought Alan Turing broke Enigma at Blechley - I had never heard of Rejewski.
you are right. Rejewski rebuilt an enigma
You are correct, but he wasn't the first to break it. He and his team broke an updated version of it.
It is usually well-known that the Poles broke it but Turings team made it possible to decode them in almost real time as the Germans changed the code frequently so Turing's work was crucial.
Based on your questions, you'd hardly know there was a war anywhere but europe (I think there was a little disagreement somewhere in the pacific, too
we in the uk get a lot about the europe conflict in school. the pacific theatre is neglected, even although it was absolutely vital and major. furthermore, many uk forces were in SE asia, and its neglected even so. i know about SE mainly as a result of my grandfather being in charge of a commando unit in burma.
61/65 with the options; 58/65 without. Broken down into 30/33 for WWI and 31/32 for WWII.
Enjoyed that! Thanks❤️
Spoiler alert for Question 32 - so don't read further if you haven't reached that question, but it brought to mind something I read forty years ago when I was obsessed with learning what I could about the Great War.
Georges Clemenceau, PM of France after WW1, famously remarked, after receiving Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points for Peace, "Le bon Dieu s'est contenté de dix!" ("The good Lord made do with Ten!").
53/65 brilliant quiz thanks again Ben, really enjoyed it.👍👍😁
Excellent!
I'm thrilled having scored 55
For question 39, the correct answer, per several sources including Britannica, is either the Nonaggression Pact or the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. It has been called several other names as well. To my mind, though commonly called the Molotov-Ribbontrop Pact, this is less correct as those were the names of the actors who negotiated it but technically it was not called that.
51/65 I knew I wouldn't do well on WWI, but I made up for it with WWII questions.
Excellent quiz....can you do a quiz with no multiple choice pls
48/65. Lost 4 on WW2, I’m not that good on WW1 obviously!
Super duper Cheers!!
45/65 I was stumped by a lot of the WW1 questions.
Great quiz! Thank you
My pleasure!
60/65.. nice quiz.
great job keep them coming
Will do thanks
Auswitz I was very small. The largest camp was Auswitz-Birkenau.
Thank you Quizzesforu. 👍👍
59/65
Welcome!
My degree : 61/65.
That was fun. Thanks.
Great job!
53/65.Knowing .myself,it's a pretty low score.Better next time.
62.... not bad. 63 if Vittorio Emanuele III where considered the commander of army... He was the King.
59/65 I always get confused on the battles of Verdun/Somme on WWI
57/65 Thank you for the challenge...
Thanks for playing 😁
63/65 But there again I am an old fart brought up on WW1 & WW2 history + I have read loads of books on these subjects and the time period in question. I wonder how much younger people would have scored ? Not as well I think.
62 😁
Great quiz
58/65 Need to brush up on WW1
German here. 62/ 65... I'm not into the the Amercan battles of 1918, cause they are not interesstin'. I'm not sure, how exact the check is about deadly wounds in WWI and I disagree, about Yalta! Why? The Potsdam conference, put the final seal on the end. 2 of the 3 leaders from Yalta were not in service anymore. So, imo, this in Potsdam was the decision, about Europe. To devide Germany, was about to devide Europe...
3 wrong in each section. Never heard of that Zimmerman thing, so got both questions where that was a factor wrong. I was also sure that Stalingrad was the deadliest battle. I thought that the majority of victims of the siege of Leningrad died of starvation.
61/65. one of your answers was questionable (Yalta), & 2 of your answers ( one about WWI & one about WWII) were just flat out wrong.
Well, since I am not into history and hate war, I think I did pretty well with 49/65. Thanks, Ben! ♥
63/65 That was fun.
52 points😊😊😊
4 wrong. Could have been better but I tried to outsmart myself on one.
55/65 with 7 incorrect answers from WW1 & 3 from WW2. Most suprising incorrect answer was Poland being the first to crack the enigma.
59/65 - happy with that!
33 correct answers❤❤
63/65
61 out of 65 I really was off on Enigma
I didn't keep track of my score, but I did do better than I thought. Tyfs,Ben 🪖⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🫡
I got 54 out of 65 correct. My dad was in the Battle of the Bulge, an American.
too easy,,only missed 4,,,,my father was a tank commander in Patton's 3rd army,,,he got me into war history on both sides ,,unofficially ww2 started when Japan attacked Manchuria and then china
I scored 58/65. It was a bit too easy for me
58/65.
too easy questions
60/65
61/65
Well I guess 60/65 ain't too bad - getting only one wrong in the WWII part; but really, these questions were simply a 'no-brainer' (at least for me, anyway) ... Nope, can't fool the 'war-expert'!
There's an argument to be made that the war started in Asia years before 1939
Or when Italy invaded Tunisia..
But at that stage, it wasn't a world war. 1941 when USA entered could be a candidate, but they're always late to the party.
If I am correct I got about 27 right.
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World War seasons I and II 😮
58 got a few wrong i shouldn't 😮
I learned that there are some smart people here.
57/65
62 points
I found that much too easy.
63
56 for me.
the versailles treaty cant be signed in 1919 AND be the treaty that ended the war, which ended in 1918. something wrong there friend.
Germany signed an armistice, Nov 1918, which ended the fighting. The Treaty of Versailles was signed June 1919, formally ending the war.
@@Quizzes4U my issue is with wording of the question.
60
I don't think answer 64 is correct. The reason given had been expansion. "We need space - breathing room".
2 wrong only. I’m old and have a good memory
20: I dispute that. Famine and disease were the greatest cause of death. These are for the most part awfully simple questions, grade or high school level at best.
That's what I thought
Missed 1 in wwI. None in WWII
59 out of 65😢
62
I wasn't alive for either of these.
Shame. Most of us here signed up in 1914.
I got 2 wrong American involvement in WW1. I didn't know the answers and didn't guess.
I had 1 wrong in the WWI questions and 2 wrong with the WWII questions.
Excellent 👍
6 wrong
57❤😂
Missed three. Kicking myself.
1 wrong!!..
boy am I rusty missed 8 total